SoftwareDevelopment

BOINC Design Documents

Design docs for current development

Design docs for proposed development

• VirtualBox shared directories
  • VboxApps
  • Tutorial
  • VmApps
• Apple Metal Support
• Scientist interface. This is based on and replaces:
  • The BOINC out of box experience
  • The BOINC test drive
• Command-line job submission
• Supporting Windows hosts with > 64 cores
• Maintaining upload statistics
• Locality scheduling redesign
• Support for OpenID
• Computing preferences version 2
• support for synchronous GPU apps
• Windows Issues
• Project config defaults
• Reduce use of authenticator

Design docs for completed development

• Work fetch with max concurrent constraints
• Keywords
• Simplified attach process
• Email Change Notification
• Delete Account
• User Opt-in Consent
• Update Password Hashing
• Unifying Web and GUI Prefs
• Manager menu reorganization
• Scheduling for multi-user projects
• Job prioritization
• BOINC on Android
  • GUI discussion
  • GUI development items
  • Current implementation
  • Building apps
  • Original planning document

Implementation notes

Client: general

• Client data model
• File structure
• FSM structure
• Main loop logic
• Host measurements
• Host identification
• Memory management
• GUI notices
• Client app configuration

Client: scheduling

• Client scheduling policies

Client: packaging

• Security sandbox
  • Design
  • Implementation
• Linux
  • Unix client packaging
  • Spec info for RPMs
  • Client package layout for Unix
• Windows
  • Version 6 Windows installer, design
  • Version 6 Windows installer, implementation
  • File layout
  • Cleanup
  • Windows installer (V5)

Client: screensaver

• Screensaver enhancements

Client: Manager

• BOINC Manager
• Redesign of Choose Project page

App runtime library

• API Implementation

Server: general

• Job size matching
• Multi-user project features
• APIs for remote job submission
• Homogeneous app version
• job runtime estimation
• The BOINC database
• Backend state transitions
• The logic of backend programs
• Debugging server components
• Notes on BOINC server security
• Export statistics for 3rd-party sites
• Single-job submission
• Adaptive replication
• Low-level validator framework

Server: scheduler

• Scheduler job matchmaking

Server: Packaging

• Unix project packaging

PHP code (web pages and RPCs)

• PHP database abstraction layer
• Style Sheets

Protocols

• Protocol overview
• The scheduling server protocol
• Scheduling server timing and retry policies
• Data server protocol
• Persistent file transfers
• XML notes

Simulation

• The BOINC Client Emulator
• EmBoinc BOINC server emulator

Credit

• Notes
• Credit system as of 5/2010
• Credit system proposal
• Generalized credit

Source code documentation (in progress)

• API
• Client
• Manager
• Server components
• PHP code

Miscellaneous

• Volunteer data archival
• BOINC/Condor integration
• Low latency computing
• Organizational Grid Management
• Python-based simplified app development
• Python master/worker system
• Cross-project user identification
• Simulator of a project using locality scheduling
• Preferences
• Trickle messages
• How to see what has changed between two versions of an executable
• XML formats
• Diagnostics API
• Simple Account Creation
• BOINC on Phones
• Extended logging
• Power management
• Prefs presets

Historical

Design docs for old versions, or for ideas that never happened.

• rewrite of HTML code using a Web Template Engine
• Remodel of computing prefs
• Virtual machine apps (deprecated)
• Old client scheduling policies
• Client scheduling changes
• Client CPU/GPU scheduling
• Work fetch and GPUs
• Automatic update
• Automated estimation of job characteristics
• Python testing framework
• Version 4 runtime system
• Mac/Intel plan
• Old Mac project plan
• Design of version 5 setup
• Mac Menubar
• Usability discussion
• Screensaver logic
• Reduce use of auth impl
• Super host
• Team discussion